We’re excited to announce that our new Meeting Finder is ready to go live, and we want you to see it first.
The US Smart Recovery website has been using it for some time now with great success. We saw it ourselves, heard about how much people preferred using it, and so we have worked with the developer to make it our official Meeting finder.
You can see how it works now in the US currently at https://meetings.smartrecovery.org. We will be updating the “Find a meeting” links and search bar on our website to point to ours soon, but we wanted you to become familiar with it first, so you’re not surprised by any questions or comments made by participants in your meetings. The UK meeting finder will look like this as seen below.
A few things to know and try (on both desktop and mobile):
1. It starts with a location search like the current finder. It defaults to searching meetings (both In-Person and Online) within 50 miles of that location, but distance can be increased.
2. When you search for a local meeting, the finder will automatically display our national open meetings.
3. A key difference: search results are sorted BY TIME, starting with the current and next upcoming meetings near that location at the top of the list. This is a huge benefit for those searching for meetings that fit their schedule and those that need a meeting urgently.
4. Meeting start times are automatically shown in your local time zone
5. Check out the Filters! Click that orange button and narrow your search results by:
Day of Week (only have free time on Mondays for a meeting?)
Online vs In-Person
Distance (between 10 and 250 miles from the location searched)
Program (looking specifically for Family & Friends or Start Smart?)
Audience (interested in Womens Only?)
Verifications (need confirmation of attendance?)
6. Click on any meeting to get details and helpful actions including:
Add to Calendar
Join on Zoom (for online meetings)
Map/Directions
Meeting changes: to use the meeting change request form, you will need to have a public-facing email. If you do not want your private email to be used, please create a separate email and share that with our team who can then add it to the platform. For example, [email protected]
We want to hear your feedback! Please use the Contact Us form on our Smart Recovery UK website, email us on [email protected] or call us on 0330 053 6022.
We are so thrilled to be making recovery just a little bit easier for both participants and our dedicated facilitators by launching this feature. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions!